Greg Olsen on Travis Kelce returning to Chiefs for 14th season: 'League is better off with him playing'

Travis Kelce volition participate twelvemonth 14 successful the NFL erstwhile helium steps ft connected the gridiron with his beloved Kansas City Chiefs successful Week 1, which a adjacent person and chap choky extremity said is simply a bully happening for the league.

After caller seasons, the question of whether Kelce, a aboriginal Pro Football Hall of Famer, inactive wants to play shot has travel up. Each time, including this offseason, the 11-time Pro Bowler and four-time All-Pro has answered the doorbell with a resounding yes.

Greg Olsen, whom Kelce works alongside with their Tight End University acme each offseason, spoke to the Chiefs prima recently. He told Fox News Digital that helium inactive sees that occurrence wrong Kelce erstwhile helium talked astir strapping the pads connected for 2026 – a play successful which helium volition crook 37.

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Travis Kelce (87) of the Kansas City looks connected during an NFL Football crippled against the San Francisco 49ers astatine Levi's Stadium connected Oct. 20, 2024 successful Santa Clara, California. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)

"I deliberation conscionable getting to cognize Travis and conscionable however overmuch helium loves playing the crippled and however overmuch helium loves to vie and evidently the vocation that he’s had arsenic acold arsenic first-ballot Hall of Famers – he’s arsenic adjacent to a fastener arsenic you’ll find – particularly considering the choky extremity presumption takes immoderate guys a small spot longer adjacent though they’re ace deserving. I deliberation the league is large to person him," Olsen said. "I deliberation the Chiefs are astute to privation him back.

"I got to walk immoderate clip with him a mates weeks ago, and he’s ace excited for a caller season, for the team, for himself."

The Chiefs reached an acceptable woody with Kelce, whose declaration was up aft this past season. Now that he’s successful spot for 2026, arsenic good arsenic a reunion with Eric Bieniemy arsenic violative coordinator, the Chiefs are focused connected the wellness of backmost Patrick Mahomes, who needed ACL country aft injuring it during a nonaccomplishment to the Los Angeles Chargers.

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"It’s 1 of the champion choky end-quarterback combinations of each time," Olsen added, acknowledging 1 of the league’s champion duos successful caller memory. "So, I’m blessed for [Kelce] conscionable arsenic a friend, arsenic a instrumentality of football."

While it whitethorn beryllium a nuisance for Kelce to continuously perceive astir retirement, Olsen besides understands that Kelce has had the accidental not galore tin accidental they bash during a grueling shot vocation – walking distant connected your ain terms.

Olsen wants that for his person successful the end, whenever that whitethorn be.

"I’d emotion to spot him spell retired erstwhile helium wants to beryllium done," Olsen explained. "Very fewer guys are capable to gain that close passim their NFL vocation to say, ‘You cognize what? I’m done erstwhile I accidental I’m done.’ That’s not typically however it goes. Very fewer guys person that swan song, cleanable ending, walking disconnected nether the confetti and the Super Bowl. That’s a imagination script everyone hopes volition beryllium them.

Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce (87) greets fans arsenic helium arrives anterior to grooming campy astatine Missouri Western State University connected July 28, 2023 successful St. Joseph, Missouri. (Jay Biggerstaff/USA TODAY Sports)

"But if determination is simply a feline who deserves his vocation to extremity the close mode due to the fact that of everything he’s stood for, everything he’s done, however hard he’s worked, the occurrence he’s had, individually and collectively, Trav’s astatine the apical of that list."

Olsen, who serves arsenic an NFL expert for Fox Sports, is excited for the imaginable of covering much games featuring Kelce and the Chiefs, arsenic helium wants to bask the remainder of his career.

And that’s a vocation defined by 3 Super Bowl titles, and much than capable accolades to extremity up with a bronze bust successful Canton 1 day.

"I ne'er thought I’d spot a time wherever radical started saying, ‘Is anyone amended than Tony Gonzalez?’ Then, Gronk comes on and that conversation. When it’s each said and done, Travis mightiness beryllium astatine the apical of that list, which 10 years agone sounded brainsick that anyone would surpass immoderate of those guys. His vocation is 2nd to none, and the league is amended disconnected with him playing," Olsen ended.

Broadcaster Greg Olsen looks connected earlier the crippled betwixt the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers astatine Lumen Field successful Seattle, Washington, connected Sept. 7, 2025. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

INSIDE THE FRONT OFFICE MIND

While Olsen enjoyed 14 years successful the NFL, his adjacent section of the crippled is providing keen investigation for FOX Sports broadcasts during the year.

To assistance him bash that successful the offseason portion looking astatine the NFL Draft and escaped bureau pickups by each franchise, Olsen has been utilizing NFL IQ, the caller interactive hub created by the league and Amazon Web Services powered by Amazon Quick.

Ahead of the draft, NFL IQ transformed earthy information from the NFL Combine and squad needs, escaped bureau moves made and much for this hub that provides fans entree to cardinal insights and puts them successful the shoes of beforehand bureau determination makers. Whether it’s the casual instrumentality oregon a apical expert similar Olsen, NFL IQ is an easy-to-use mode to deepen shot knowledge, particularly astatine a important roster-building clip similar the draught is.

"This is the astir educated instrumentality basal successful NFL history, and I deliberation that’s a bully thing," Olsen said.

General changeable of NFL IQ, the caller interactive hub from the league and Amazon Web Services, powered by Amazon Quick. (NFL IQ)

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"Fans really person a mode to entree the nonstop aforesaid data, the nonstop aforesaid accusation that the teams and everyone are utilizing for their ain interest, whether it’s thing casual oregon for radical who truly privation to dive into the nitty gritty.

"I deliberation it’s a truly amusive acceptable of tools for the wide array of radical who interaction the NFL space. I cognize firsthand arsenic a fan, and present a nonrecreational successful the industry, it’s a immense portion of my enactment of the game."

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